Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds ...

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa may have the potential to disturb Earth’s magnetic ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

The new Russian rocket engine achieves higher acceleration than chemical rockets by using magnetic plasma accelerators, ...

A recent study has revealed that the red color of Mars is due to ferrihydrite, an iron oxide mineral. This finding suggests that Mars once had liquid ...

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space.

As Mars' atmosphere was stripped off by solar winds, possibly because the planet has a weak magnetic field, it cooled and dried. This climatic shift is one of the most important reasons Mars no ...

Relatively early in its history, Mars lost its magnetic field, which allowed the solar wind to claw away most of its atmosphere; with that, much of the water sublimed into space. It’s in the ...

You might experience your brain’s resulting confusion as severe space motion sickness. Especially when moving your head, you ...